From the category archives:

earnings

State of the (Economic) Union 2010: is political news now a leading indicator of stock markets?
I can’t remember where I read it recently, perhaps even in the End of Influence, but the consensus among some who know more about it than I do is that stock markets, and most notably the U.S. stock market in [...]

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Earlier this week we had two Canadian reports on stock market expectations for 2010 – what sectors should outperform in 2010 compared to the stock market highs in 2007 – as well as which Canadian equities are expected to do well in 2010.
Top 10 Canadian Dividend-Paying Multinationals
Best Sectors To Invest In for 2010
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Frances Horodelski reported [...]

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Increasingly, analysts seem to agree that the first half (and the first quarter, especially) of stock markets in 2010 will look robust and promising, but stock markets in the second half of the year leave much to be desired.
The possibility of a double-dip recession still remains for some, while others mitigate this prediction about the [...]

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The last day of the decade.  Markets have just closed.  We’ve got the top stocks from the past decade in now, as well as the ETF winners from 2009.  Here they are.
These stocks remind one that buy and hold didn’t die in 2009.
Top Performing Canadian Stocks
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These are the top three performers on the S&P/TSX Composite [...]

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Yesterday, U.S. GDP numbers came in better than expected at 3.5% – causing analysts to “unofficially officially” call the end of the U.S. recession (Canada, Australia and a few other countries had already come out of the recession).  The National Bureau of Economic Research is expected to date the end of the recession to a [...]

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We’re still waiting…. If the traditional September stock market pullback doesn’t happen, conventional wisdom says we should look for it in October.  October, after all, is historically just as stormy – memories of the crash of ‘87 and even the big post-Lehman DJIA collapse keep investors cautious.
Caution is even more advisable when you’ve got the [...]

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This week of August 24-28, all the talk on Bay Street is about the Big 6 Canadian banks reporting fiscal Q3 (third quarter) earnings.  Earnings results of the Big 5 are important to many Canadian investors, who are almost all invested in one or more of these banks through their pension and broad-based mutual funds [...]

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